Chapter 200: Chapter 199: Tied for First Place
Translator: 549690339
“The battle is not over yet!’
Xiong Li’s rough voice came out, instantly making the faces of ten thousand soldiers ugly.
“It’s over,” the ten thousand soldiers sighed, then said to the young girl beside them, “Junior Sister Su, I admit……”
“Clan&
In the smoke, Xiong Li collided with his two hammers directly, and the sound waves instantly dispersed the smoke around him.
At this time, Xiong Li’s heavy armor had many scars, but if you look closely, these scars were just scratches on the surface.
“Ten Thousand Soldiers, let’s continue fighting.”
Before Ten Thousand Soldiers could react, Xiong Li rushed towards him at an incredibly fast speed.
“If you give up, our hatred will be settled.” Xiong Li’s voice directly made Ten Thousand Soldiers give up the idea of surrendering.
As the big brother of the first generation disciples in the sect, he must show some respect, even if it means breaking a leg.
The puppets in the duel arena formed a battle array once again and charged towards Xiong Li.
The Gang Qi True Body on Xiong Li lit up.
Five minutes later, Xiong Li smashed all of Ten Thousand Soldiers’ puppets into pieces, and slowly walked up to Ten Thousand Soldiers.
He gently kicked Ten Thousand Soldiers’ leg, sending him flying in a perfect arc in the sky.
Ten Thousand Soldiers’ leg was broken, and the battle was over.
“Senior Brother Xiong Li wins!” the commentator girl excitedly announced.
After the match ended, Xiong Li helped Ten Thousand Soldiers, who had his leg broken, to walk down.
“I’ve vented my anger, if you bombard me again, we’ll start over with the score.” Xiong Li said while supporting Ten Thousand Soldiers.
“Haha, how could I? 1 will never bombard Brother Bear again.” Ten Thousand Soldiers said with a smile,
“Good, be careful from now on.” Xiong Li said indifferently.
Offstage, the second match began.
This time, the duel was between two disciples of the ten-thousand-treasures sect, whom Xu Fan called in the Krypton Gold.
As the duel began, at least six different and functional magical treasures appeared in the duel arena: needle-type, rope-type, spider-web-type, and trap-type magical treasures.
The overt and covert fighting was very exciting.
“It’s interesting, but their hearts are not dark enough. It might be because they don’t dare to show their true colors against fellow disciples.” Xu Fan looked down at the duel and said.
“l think it’s good enough. It’s enough to wander around the cultivation world at this level.” Xu Yuexian laughed and said as the methods of the two first-generation disciples made her reminisce about her past experience in exploring the cultivation world.
The opponents in the past had more hidden and sinister methods than the two disciples on the stage.
At this moment, as one of the disciples was careless for a moment, they were suddenly wrapped up by a hair-like silk thread.
With this, the battle ended.
“Not bad, kind of like my style.” Xu Fan said with a smile.
“Indeed, it is somewhat similar to Master’s methods.” Xu Yuexian recalled Xu Fan’s few experiences in taking action.
After the battle ended, the third match began, this time randomly selecting a disciple from the tower defense and technique sects.
Both offense and defense were a boring match.
Xu Fan, sitting on the stage, started to multitask by playing the underground exploration game of the Demon World in his mind.
In the Demon World, deep within the Ten-Thousand Fold Mountain Range, Xu Fan took control of the underground exploration of Excavator Type 1 and began to detect it in the direction he felt.
“l wonder if there is any surprise today.” Xu Fan thought.
Now exploring the underground space of the Ten-Thousand Fold Mountain Range in the Demon World had become Xu Fan’s daily game and one of his favorite activities.
Because playing it felt like a lottery draw. So far, he had discovered two demon iron spirit mines, a small spirit stone mine, and the most surprising titanium spirit mine.
The excavator Type 1 puppet’s artifact on top of its head suddenly began to vibrate, and Xu Fan immediately became excited, even sitting up straight on the stage.
Once the artifact on the excavator Type 1 puppet’s head for detecting spirit mines vibrates, it means that there are spirit mines nearby.
Xu Fan followed the direction of the detection artifact and continued to dig for several hundred meters before the excavator Type 1 puppet dug up a piece of clear, transparent, medium-grade spirit stone.
“Damn, a medium-grade spirit stone mine!” Xu Fan was so excited that he almost shouted out loud.
“Grape, quickly send excavation tool puppets to mine the spirit stones,” Xu Fan secretly instructed.
“Understood.’
“Wuhu, if this medium-grade spirit stone mine is a little bigger, my Dao Artifact level Sky Base Satellite can be put into operation.” Xu Fan said excitedly in his heart.
According to the plan, to gather enough spirit stones for the subsequent refining of the Dao Artifact Sky Base Weapon Satellite, he would need to accumulate spirit stones for several more years.
If he had this spirit mine, maybe it would be enough now.
Xu Fan controlled the Excavator Type 1 puppet and began to dig around the medium-grade spirit mine.
After circling around, Xu Fan found that the spirit mine was larger than he had thought.
“This makes it the third Dao Artifact to be activated in the sect.’
At this moment, Xu Fan realized someone was calling him in the outside world, so he handed over the operation authority to Grape, and his consciousness returned to reality.
“Master, this is the last match, you should watch it carefully.”
“Xu LingTai versus Xiong Li.”
“Who do you think will win?”
Xu Fan glanced down at the stage and said, “Draw.”
“One can’t find the true body, and one can’t break the defense,” Xu Fan leisurely said.
The battle unfolding behind was a visually stunning scene, but after half a day of fighting, neither side had been able to harm the other.
Amidst the dazzling bombardment, Xiong Li stood firm like a giant bell with his Bronze Battle Body, having given up on finding Xu LingTai’s real body and instead choosing to compete in patience.
Looking at Xiong Li, who stood steadfast below, Xu Yuexian thought of those who had once fought against her eldest brother. and guessed that their feelings were probably similar to Xiong Li’s.
“LingTai has already learned 80% of his father’s skills, and the rest is a matter of cultivation level,” Xu Fan said with satisfaction.
“In less than 500 years, LingTai will surpass elder brother,” he continued.
“l think three hundred years should be enough,” Xu Yuexian replied.
“Do you have that little faith in your elder brother?” Xu Fan asked with a smile.
“I’m just prioritizing my nephew LingTai,” she responded.
Three hours later, Xu Fan called an end to the boring battle.
“It’s a draw. Xu LingTai and Xiong Li are tied for first place,” Xu Fan’s voice echoed throughout Satellite Island.
Eleven auspicious clouds rose from the island, carrying the top ten disciples up to the sky and arranged them in a row.
Then, a lotus flower bloomed in front of each disciple, and within the bud was a space ring containing their rewards.
“As a reward for reaching the top ten, I will custom-make a set of divine abilities for each of you.”
“Alright, this sect competition has come to an end.”
“I’m very satisfied with the progress of the first-generation disciples.
Continue to strive and set a good example for the younger generation.” At that point, the first sect competition of the Hidden Spirit Sect concluded.
“Such a sect competition isn’t very meaningful; it’s just fighting with our own people, which doesn’t truly showcase our abilities,” Xu Fan remarked.
“For the second sect competition, I’ll personally design it to ensure that it’s lively and fun,” he added, prompting a roll of the eyes from Xu Yuexian.
Once the sect competition ended, Xu Fan had planned to deal with some day-to-day matters before heading to the underground space to help his two pitiful avatars. Unfortunately, he was stopped by Su Rentian before he could get started.
In a pavilion atop the main peak, Xu Fan and Su Rentian sat facing each other.
“Elder Xu, I agreed to your earlier proposition, so from now on, I’ll be a guest elder of the Hidden Spirit Sect,” Su Rentian said.
“Welcome, Elder Su, to the Hidden Spirit Sect. 1 believe in the not too distant future; you’ll be proud to be part of it,” Xu Fan replied with a smile.
“You already know my reasons for joining your sect. I’m curious, what does Elder Xu think of this?” Su Rentian inquired, alluding to something deeper.
What can I think? You’ve already deceived and taken advantage of me, so how can I feel about it?
“Love and affection are part of human nature; just go with the flow,” Xu Fan said with a smile. “If not for your wealth and strength, I would have maintained my Star Ci Master’s dignity.”
After hearing Xu Fan’s words, Su Rentian was startled before he finally understood. As a Refining Master, Xu Fan’s status in the Cultivation World was slightly higher than hers.
“Hmm, I understand what you mean, Elder Xu.”
The two parted ways after the conversation.
Before leaving, Su Rentian held a Spatial Spirit Treasure in her hand. Inside was a ship capable of traversing the Endless Sea. She had planned to give this to the Hidden Spirit Sect as a joining gift and as a contribution. However, after hearing Xu Fan’s non-committal words, she ultimately changed her mind.
At this moment, Xu Fan, who was still unaware of what he had missed, was unsure whether to go to the underground space and get to work.
“l might as well go; I haven’t personally crafted artifacts for such a long time now,” he decided.
After instructing Qiu Ziyuan on some matters via a message, Xu Fan headed towards the underground space.
In the Refining Room, Xu Fan took over the position from his second avatar.
Just as the second avatar was rejoicing, Xu Fan casually said, “Go to the Spirit
Pill Peak and practice alchemy.”
“Refine a few batches of Master Level Spirit Pills, so as not to waste this skill due to not practicing for a long time,” Xu Fan continued, controlling the spiritual fire and speaking to his second avatar.
When I’m working, you guys think you can slack off? Dream on.
“l…” was the only retort the second avatar could muster, feeling a torrent of emotions in his heart.
“You could try to be human,” he appealed to Xu Fan.
“Because of you and number one, I’ve been working non-stop for over half a month trying to refine the Dao Artifact Shield,” the second avatar argued.
“Don’t talk, just go and do your work,” Xu Fan, who was refining the Titanium Spirit Ore, replied indifferently.
Feeling helpless, the second avatar complied.
He had to listen to his main body’s words; after all, completely erasing his consciousness would mean that he could no longer enjoy these interesting novels and cartoons.
Watching his second avatar leave in silence, Xu Fan felt that the early-stage work was now complete.
“Main body, you’re really acting like a capitalist,” the first avatar said to Xu
Fan.
“Drop the ‘acting like’ part,” Xu Fan retorted.
Initially, the two avatars, who had no desire for this world, had now become addicts of cartoons and novels, unable to break free. This was the result of Xu Fan’s exploitation.
“Hehe.’
At this point, the first Titanium Heart Shield’s spiritual ore had been partially refined, leaving only the slow process of shaping left.
“It’s a bit of a stretch for a Golden Core Stage cultivator to refine a Dao Artifact,” the first avatar commented.
“There’s no other choice; there’s still 240 more years until the Nascent Soul Stage,” Xu Fan lamented.
“Right now, we’re still in danger of facing the Integration Stage Demon Clan,” the first avatar reminded.
“Life, it always moves in an unexpected direction,” Xu Fan mused..
